Description: Further DetailsTitle: Maize for the GodsCondition: NewSubtitle: Unearthing the 9,000-Year History of CornISBN-10: 0520276876EAN: 9780520276871ISBN: 9780520276871Publisher: University of California PressFormat: HardbackRelease Date: 08/28/2015Description: Maize is the world's most productive food and industrial crop, grown in more than 160 countries and on every continent except Antarctica. If by some catastrophe maize were to disappear from our food supply chain, vast numbers of people would starve and global economies would rapidly collapse. How did we come to be so dependent on this one plant? Maize for the Gods brings together new research by archaeologists, archaeobotanists, plant geneticists, and a host of other specialists to explore the complex ways that this single plant and the peoples who domesticated it came to be inextricably entangled with one another over the past nine millennia. Tracing maize from its first appearance and domestication in ancient campsites and settlements in Mexico to its intercontinental journey through most of North and South America, this history also tells the story of the artistic creativity, technological prowess, and social, political, and economic resilience of America's first peoples.Language: EnglishCountry/Region of Manufacture: USItem Height: 229mmItem Length: 152mmItem Width: 23mmItem Weight: 499gAuthor: Michael BlakeGenre: Society & CultureTopic: History, Science Nature & Math, Technology & EngineeringRelease Year: 2015 Missing Information?Please contact us if any details are missing and where possible we will add the information to our listing.
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Publication Name: Maize for the Gods
Title: Maize for the Gods
Subtitle: Unearthing the 9,000-Year History of Corn
ISBN-10: 0520276876
EAN: 9780520276871
ISBN: 9780520276871
Release Date: 08/28/2015
Release Year: 2015
Country/Region of Manufacture: US
Book Title: Maize for the Gods : Unearthing the 9000-Year History of Corn
Number of Pages: 272 Pages
Language: English
Publisher: University of California Press
Item Height: 1 in
Publication Year: 2015
Topic: Latin America / Mexico, Archaeology, Agriculture / Agronomy / Crop Science, Agriculture & Food (See Also Political Science / Public Policy / Agriculture & Food Policy)
Illustrator: Yes
Genre: Technology & Engineering, Social Science, History
Item Weight: 20.1 Oz
Item Length: 9.3 in
Author: Michael Blake
Item Width: 6.3 in
Format: Hardcover
